Schools are not short of ideas about curriculum. The challenge now is making those ideas work consistently in classrooms.
This conference focuses on what strong teaching looks like in practice — how lessons are designed, how pupils experience the curriculum, and how leaders ensure that all pupils, particularly the disadvantaged, can access and succeed in what is taught.
Across the day, leading experts in teaching, learning and school leadership will explore how classroom practice develops over time — and why it often drifts from what was intended. Through a combination of research, real classroom examples and inspection insight, sessions will focus on the decisions that matter most: how teachers design tasks, how they check understanding, how they adapt teaching, and how schools build this expertise across staff.
The emphasis is not on new strategies, but on doing fewer things better — and ensuring that what happens in classrooms leads to meaningful learning for all pupils.
OUR SPEAKER LINEUP:
- Carl Hendrick
Why good teaching ideas break down in real classrooms — and how to design lessons that keep thinking at the centre - Rob Coe
Why improving teaching depends on how schools design professional development - Lekha Sharma
How curriculum plans translate into classroom practice — and who benefits when they do - Matt Bromley
What early inspections are showing about teaching, curriculum and inclusion — and how leaders can respond